I go through phases of sleeping fine and then waking up at 1 am for several nights in a row. Hopefully this phase passes quickly. 90% of it is work stress.

@Foxthorn
I hear that! When I was pregnant 20 years ago (tricky and scary pregnancy), my specialist suggested Benadryl. It helped.

@Helical_Code Benedryl is my next stop. My SO was in a motorcycle accident once and broke her cuboid bone in her foot (we didn't know it was broken yet). She couldn't go to the hospital because no insurance so we were making do with the pain meds we had on hand. To a colorblind person, the pink benedryl was not so different in color as the orangish/red motrin. I gave her four. She woke up every couple of hours to tell me how much her foot still hurt and then she passed right back out.

@Foxthorn
OMG. I admit to giggling, but only because I figure that the break has long since healed.

I'm so tempted to ask you nosy questions about your colorblindness (because I heard a talk about the genetics of colorblindness 25 years ago).

@Helical_Code We still laugh about it and I'm no longer allowed to dispense pills without reading bottle labels.

I always thought women couldn't be colorblind. I think the chances are like half of one percent. Probably why I was in my mid twenties and arguing over paint colors before it was discovered. Looking back though, it makes sense. I always thought my parents were painting the carport a god awful pink....it's tan/brown.

@Foxthorn
That's fascinating!

The red and green cones are on the X chromosome, so red-green color blindness in XX individuals requires mutations on each X chromosome. The blue cones are on chromosome 7, so for *anyone* to have blue-yellow colorblindness two mutations are needed.

The frequency of blue-yellow color blindness is about 1%, and red-green color blindness in women is 0.5% (as you said) - statistically, not that much different. RG color blindness is 12% in men.

@Helical_Code I struggle with colors containing reds and greens. I can't always distinguish blue from purple. Tan is a concept that I understand but I generally either see green or red. Shades of green and brown are favorites for geologists to use in their graphs and I generally can't see the difference between the shades/tints. It's not severe, but it's enough to add some interesting moments to my life for sure!

@Foxthorn
Oh man, that sounds really tricky with the green and brown and the geologists!

In biology, there's RNA transcription data that's usually displayed as red and green heat maps. I've grabbed a piece of it and noted what I see. It's definitely come up that this kind of display isn't user friendly for people with red-green color blindness. Some interfaces allow people to choose what they want the color coding to be.

@Helical_Code oh wow that would be interesting! I'm glad my field isn't more sensitive to color. It's unfortunate that I have one frequently used software that plots data in various shades of yellow to green to brown. It's terrible. My report reviewer asked me to label the graphs because he's color blind. I had to apologize and tell him I had the same problem and that I couldn't distinguish them for labeling. That's why I include tabular data in the package.